Ram Devineni

RAM DEVINENI is a documentary filmmaker, technologist, and founder of Rattapallax. He produced The Russian Woodpecker, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. The film was purchased by Amazon and shown in commercial theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. His most recent film, The Karma Killings, about the Nithari serial killings was out exclusively on Netflix worldwide. The Karma Killings is hailed as “true crime watershed moment” in India. He is the multimedia editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the founder and editor of Rattapallax magazine, which has received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts. In addition, he co-founded Brazil’s first and biggest independent film school, Academia Internacional de Cinema with branches in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. He is the co-creator of the comic book, Priya’s Shakti, Priya’s Mirror, and Priya and the Lost Girls which received the Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund from the Ford Foundation and supported by the World Bank, and showcased at 2016 New York Film Festival. For creating India’s first female superhero who is a rape survivor, he was named a “gender equality champion” by UN Women and named by Fast Company magazine as one of the most creative people in business in 2017. He was a featured speaker at hundreds of festivals such as TEDx at London Museum, Dresher Center for the Humanities, ARTBO in Bogota, Delhi Comic Convention, Myriad Festival in Australia, Bookwork Festival in Beijing, Games for Change Festival, Cooler Lumpur Literary Festival, and SXSW Interactive.